Rumors and speculation continue to swirl around point guard Kyrie Irving’s decision to request a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers, but Charles Barkley thinks he has it figured it.

In an interview Tuesday on NBA TV, the TNT analyst and Hall of Famer said Irving is just “stupid” for wanting to leave a team that has LeBron James on it.

“I don’t understand the Kyrie situation,” Barkley said. “This generation of players — you want to be on a good team. You want to play with other great players. This notion where you want to be the man, I just think is so stupid. If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. The objective is to win.

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“When he was on a bad team and he was the man, I guarantee you that wasn’t a lot of fun for him. And now you want to leave the best player in the world.”

While Barkley has a tendency to shoot off his mouth, he made several logical points, explaining that it’s foolish for Kyrie to want to leave one of the best teams in the NBA so he won’t be overshadowed by the four-time league MVP.

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“And listen, I hear all of this stuff about how LeBron casts a big shadow. He should cast a big shadow. I’m pretty sure everybody that played with Michael Jordan or Larry Bird or Shaq — it’s a big thing. … If you get a chance to play with great players, that’s half the battle,” Barkley asserted.

Five-time NBA champion and former Cavalier Ron Harper told the Akron Beacon Journal Sunday that Irving’s “youth” and “ignorance” pushed him to seek a trade from Cleveland.

When Irving was the star of the Cavaliers for three years prior to James’ return, Cleveland never won more than 33 games.

“When I used to play on bad teams and you trained all off-season to play 82 games, you get to the first round and you lose. You’re guaranteed to play till June. The East is good, but you know that you’re the best basketball team,” Harper said. “I don’t really understand what’s behind it.

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“Young. Youth. Kids … listen, the inmates are in charge. So when the inmates are in charge, nothing but bad things can happen, right?”

Of Irving’s preferred destinations, one (San Antonio) would give him the opportunity to join a team that competes each year for the Western Conference title and the other three (New York, Minnesota and Miami) are in desperate need of a superstar player.

Cleveland, meanwhile, has reached three straight NBA Finals, won it all in 2016 and is favored to return to the Finals next year.